his intention to run for a second term in office, he has started
reaching out to prominent groups in the South West to actualise his
ambition come 2015.
One of such groups is Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, whose leader,
Otunba Gani Adams, played host to Special Adviser to the President on
the Niger Delta and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Mr.
Kingsley Kuku, yesterday.
Although the duo denied that their close door meeting which lasted for
several hours in Lagos, had nothing to do with President Goodluck
Jonathan's 2015 ambition, the undertone of the courtesy visit showed
otherwise as a reliable source close to the corridors of powers
disclosed that the meeting was in line with Jonathan's effort to woo
the South-West ahead of 2015.
According to Otunba Adams, the President of Nigeria had the
constitutional right to contest for a second term.
"Since he is passing through a process that is constitutional, he has
a right to contest," Otunba Adams said.
Adams said President Goodluck Jonathan's first two years in office was
a completion of late Musa Yar'Ádua tenure.
He said: "But it is left for Nigerians to decide whether they want him
or not. In my own humble opinion he has right to contest for second
tenure."
In a bid to prevent Nigerians from reading meanings to the visit, Mr.
Kingsley Kuku noted: "I advise Nigerians not to read any political
meaning to the visit.
"Otunba Gani Adams and I share several bond, we come from the same
state, we struggled together against the military and above all, we
have the same ideology.
"Since I assumed office as Special Adviser to the President on the
Niger Delta and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme, I haven't
seen my brother," Kuku explained.
On continuation of amnesty programe after 2015, Kuku noted that there
were so many people in the Niger Delta, South-South, South East and
the three senatorial districts of the north where youths and women
needed some form of empowerment.
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